The Witness Cairn on the site of the old lifeboat station, near St. Ninian's Chapel at the Isle of Whithorn, was begun in 1997. Since that time many modern pilgrims have added a stone, some with a simple message.
According to an unbroken tradition dating from the earliest times and confirmed in the writings of the Venerable Bede in the 8th century, a holy man named Nynia, born among the British people, introduced the Christian faith into a significant part of the land now known as Scotland long before the coming of Saint Columba.
